intended to be and was a transfer of ownership. A deed
called a deed of release can, by using words of sufficient
amplitude, transfer title ... defendant should execute a deed
of conveyance. These decisions do not lay down that a deed
styled a deed of release cannot, in law, transfer
concerned Sub-Registrar treated the transaction under Article 55(A) as a release deed and not as a deed of conveyance as contemplated under Article ... have invoked Section 33 A of the Indian Stamp Act for recovering a deficit Stamp Duty on a release deed submitted before the Joint Registrar
agreed in July, 1949, to execute release deeds. Two of the five vendors executed the release deeds Exhibits A-3 and A-4 in August ... execute a release deed was entered into only in July, 1949. It is probable that this particular release deed and other release deeds were typed
owner. Thus there is a clear and marked distinction between a deed of conveyance and a deed of release.
11. The stamp duty payable ... a deed of conveyance. The Bench ultimately treated the deed as a deed of conveyance, and held that inasmuch as a release be made
RELEASE, that is to say,
any instrument [not being such
a release as is provided for by
section 23(a) ] whereby a person
renounces a ... favour of the remaining coparceners would
not be a deed of conveyance, but a deed of release. He
did this apparently because of a decision
intended to be and was a
transfer of ownership. A deed called a deed of release can, by
using words of sufficient amplitude, transfer title ... defendant should execute a deed of
conveyance. These decisions do not lay down that a deed styled a
deed of release cannot, in law, transfer
a deed of conveyance chargeable to stamp duty as a conveyance under Article 23 of Schedule I and not as a deed of release chargeable ... extent. A release of a right or of a claim can only be in favour of a person who had a pre-existing right
a case where executant's objective can legally be achieved either by executing a deed of conveyance or by executing a deed of release ... wherein the view has been taken that such a deed would be a deed of release. In 1955 Mad 641 (supra) Rajamannar
property jointly under a registered sale deed on 30-11-1965. Pasumarthi Seetharama Sastry purported to execute a deed of release ... Court was concerned with a document of a release. It was observed by the Supreme Court that a release deed could only feed title
release deed was executed with ulterior motive.
(3) in any case, on the own pleadings of the plaintiffs that the impugned release deed was a ... exhaustive. If the object of a given instrument of a partition or a release deed is not merely to give to a sharer his rightful